Comrade Bagaev!

I thank you most sincerely for your greetings and kind wishes. I apologize that due to illness I am unable to arrange a meeting. I ask that you contact Comrade Sverdlov.

I ask you to convey to my Astrakhan Cossack comrades my very best wishes and greetings.

Moscow. 25/IX. 1918.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

from the manuscript

First published in 1942

in Leninskii sbornik XXXIV

Printed from photocopy